SOCIAL MEDIA IN MINISTRY@nathancreitz

1. ESTABLISH HOME BASE

Your website is the new front door for your church.

17,000,000+Number of American non-churchgoing adults who visited the website of a local church or place of worship in the

past 12 months.

BEN

$100 + $5/mo

GETTING STARTED

1. Register domain ($12/yr) and hosting plan ($4/mo)

2. Setup Wordpress (Free)

3. Purchase theme ($100)

4. Add pages and posts

5. Include social connectivity

6. Post regularly

7. Make it discoverable

8. Add e-mail optin form

MOST VISITED PAGES1. Ministries

2. Events

3. Staff

4. Blog/Sermons

5. News

6. Mission

7. About/Service Times

8. Contact/Location

9. What We Believe

10. New Here

11. Give/Donate

Your website should focus on guests

Your website should resource membersfocus on guests

2. ADD SOCIAL MEDIA

Social media helps you share your message and interact

with members.

325,000,000Mobile subscriptions in the US

165,000,000 +/-use their mobile devices to engage on social media sites

71%Percentage of people in the US who are on Facebook

90%of consumers trust peer recommendations

14%trust advertisements

46.1%Percentage of churches that reported social media was their

most effective means of outreach (Knocking on Doors - 24.7% / Newspaper - 14.3% / Radio - 9.1% / TV - 5.8%)

88%Social media-using teens who have witnessed other people being mean or cruel on social network sites.

FACEBOOK

CAROL

GETTING STARTED

1. Setup a personal profile at facebook.com

2. Find friends

3. Create a facebook page

4. Add cover photo, logo, bio, etc.

5. Invite friends to “Like” your page

6. Publish engaging content

7. Use images

8. Promote with targeted ad

TWITTER

GETTING STARTED

1. Setup an account at twitter.com

2. Fill out your profile

3. Download the app for your phone

4. Follow local influencers

5. Learn the terms (hashtag, retweet, reply, direct message, etc.)

6. Jab, jab, jab, right hook

7. Add value

OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS

nathancreitz.net/social-media-resources